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Ronald C. Zabel, Esq.
Ronald C. Zabel became the Executive Director of Conflict Resolution & Conciliation Services, a non-profit peacemaking
organization, in February 1995. He has over twenty years of experience dealing with individual, family, business, workplace,
employment, organizational, community, and public policy conflicts.
While with Conflict Resolution & Conciliation
Services he has conducted over three thousand hours of conflict coaching, mediation, conciliation and arbitration for a broad
range of disputes including family (including, relationship preservation and restoration, parenting, separation, custody,
equitable distribution, elder care, and estate issues), victim/offender, community, employment, commercial, contractual, educational,
organizational, and church. He is also experienced in conflict intervention, particularly in church, workplace and other
inter- and intra-organizational contexts. Mr. Zabel serves on the Advisory Council for the Institute for Christian Conciliation.
He also serves on the Fairfax Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.
Mr. Zabel also
has extensive experience teaching dispute resolution principles and practice, Christian Conciliation, mediation and personal
peacemaking in a variety of formats including overviews, workshops, seminars, multi-day intensive blocks, and extended multi-week
programs. He has provided instruction in conflict resolution for a variety of organizations and churches, including programs
at Fairfax County Public Schools Student Mediation Conferences, Marymount University, the Virginia Mediation Network Annual
Conference, George Mason University's Northern Virginia Mediation Service Monday Night Forum, the Fairfax Bar Association
Religious Leader Seminar, and the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center's Life Learning Block. He is a coach/trainer for Peacemaker
Ministries' Reconciler Training Program and Certification Program for Christian Conciliators and has taught at multiple Peacemaker
Ministries conferences and Conciliator Training Practicums.
Prior to founding Conflict Resolution & Conciliation
Services he completed a career as a legal officer for the United States Coast Guard where he was recognized for exceptional
ability in negotiating development of regulatory policy and achieving improved intra-agency relationships. With the Coast
Guard he had extensive experience dealing with people in conflict and facilitating conflict resolution. He managed delivery
of all facility and support services for the 400,000 square foot Headquarters building and administered civilian and military
personnel program for its staff of 2400, which involved mediation of issues between program elements and between staff personnel
on an almost daily basis; conducted extensive ethics training and resolved numerous standards of conduct disputes; trained
regulatory project teams in the art of regulatory development and negotiated extensively with maritime and environmental interest
groups, other Federal agencies and the Office of Management and Budget to resolve controversial issues during development
of the significant rules; conceptualized and orchestrated the Coast Guard's first negotiated rulemaking effort in order to
develop the very controversial major rule on pollution response plans for vessels. Mr. Zabel also has extensive experience
in military trials and administrative proceedings serving as counsel for parties, hearing officer, or Judge.
Mr.
Zabel's education includes: J.D, George Washington University; B.A. University of Washington. He has extensive training
in dealing with people in conflict including: multiple courses in negotiation and mediation from the Justice Department's
Legal Education Institute, American Arbitration Association, Northern Virginia Mediation Service, Institute for Christian
Conciliation, Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, Association for Conflict Resolution, and Virginia Mediation Network
with an emphasis on family, employment, church, and relationship based disputes; Procurement Law; Human Resources Management;
Labor Relations; Managing Diversity; Workplace Discrimination; Organizational Program Development and Team Building.
Mr. Zabel's professional memberships include: Virginia State Bar, Fairfax Bar Association, Commercial Mediation Association,
Association for Conflict Resolution (National, Metro DC and Virginia Chapters), Collaborative Law Society, International Academy
of Collaborative Professionals, Christian Legal Society, Virginia Mediation Network, and The Virginia Alternative Dispute
Resolution Joint Committee. He is certified by the Judicial Council of Virginia as a Circuit Court level court-referred mediator
for both civil and family cases and as a mentor for Virginia certification candidates. He is also certified by the Institute
for Christian Conciliation as a Christian Conciliator and coaches candidates pursuing certification in Christian Conciliation.
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